"You want to talk? Fine. Talk. Tell me something you've never told anybody else.' I thought for a moment. 'Turtles have the second-largest brains of any animal on the planet.' It took Isabel only a second to process this. 'No, they don't.' 'I know that's why I've never told anybody that before."

-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Animal Quotes #Turtles Quotes #Brain Quotes

“This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.”

Source : Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.115, Library of America
“If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.”
“You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.”
“I am possessed by love and have no options.”

Source : Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage
“If you care about the people you work with then you work harder”
“I'd play in Afghanistan if they wanted me to!”
“There is a sense that science and politics are incompatible. I don't think so at all. I think it's important that scientists take great pains to make sure that ideology and personal bias and wishful thinking do not contaminate the collection and analysis and evidence.”
“Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.”

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